Bright Days Ahead

A moving drama about two themes not often brought together in the cinema -- adultery and retirement.
-- Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette

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Bright Days Ahead

For recent retiree Caroline (Fanny Ardant, 8 WOMEN, CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS), a new life of freedom and opportunity lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and most of all, to finally take care of herself. But while her peers at the local seniors' club pass the time with ceramics and amateur theater, she finds a new hobby of her own in bed with the center's computer teacher Julien (Laurent Lafitte, LITTLE WHITE LIES), a carefree ladies man decades her junior. The couple set rules for their affair, but Caroline seems to like courting danger, taking her lover to places she knows they might be seen and telling lies to her husband (Patrick Chesnais, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) that could easily be discovered. As Caroline finds herself in the midst a second youth - taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what's expected of her - will her retirement mark the beginning of the end for her marriage, or a new beginning?
Not Rated
Genre
Romance
Runtime
94
Language
English, French
Director
Marion Vernoux
Cast
Fanny Ardant, Patrick Chesnais

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